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Monaca, PA, United States 🇺🇸 Member

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Retired American Luddite and refugee of the 2018-2024 Ratebeer/Anheuser-Busch (InBev) fiasco. Thanks Brewver for the chance to continue rating! ....... and yes, I'll soon be a supporter! ........ Since 1968, I've enjoyed all kinds of cheap macro pale lagers, starting with Carling Black Label bottles I found in Grampa Gino's wine cellar! Later, my dad had faves like Old Mil, Strohs, Bud, Coors Light and Piels! They were all good for a budding youngster like me. My ratings aren't to style, but how much I liked it. Thus, my fave styles; lambic, wild & flemish, rate much higher than IPA since I don't like bitter hoppy beers. You like IPA? The lower my IPA rating, the better according to style! There, you have it! Easy peezy, no worries!

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cheap updated a beer: High! Imperial Peach brewed by California Cider Company (Ace Ciders)
6 months ago

cheap updated a beer: Guava brewed by California Cider Company (Ace Ciders)
6 months ago

cheap (9692) reviewed

Imperial Berry from Bold Rock Hard Cider

6 months ago

6.3/10 — Appearance 8 Aroma 6 Flavor 7 Texture 4 Overall 6

Clear bottle off the sale rack at JR's. Bright cherry red and clear. Boozy fruit nose, maybe its berry. Stronger boozy forward somewhat berry flavored brew. Can't really tell this is apple based cider. Decent level of co2. More like a sweeter fruit soda malt alky bomb. Warming sensations on the finish. Not too bad.

Tried from Bottle from JR's Beer Warehouse on 24 Jan 2026 at 19:26

cheap updated a beer: Imperial Berry brewed by Bold Rock Hard Cider
6 months ago

cheap (9692) reviewed

Imperial Orange from Bold Rock Hard Cider

6 months ago

4.5/10 — Appearance 4 Aroma 4 Flavor 5 Texture 2 Overall 6

Oh yes, got this cheap bottle off the sale rack at JR's. Its very light hazy pale with an ever so slight orange tint. You'd never know it was orange flavored by looking at it. Nose is oddly waxy, not sure if I'm getting any orange in there or not. Very mild orange flavor, tastes like booze spiked artificial orange drink. Surprisingly flat. A little dull for what it is. Quite boozy. Not bad, just a weird thing for a cider. Comes across like one of those flavored malt fruit bombs.

Tried from Bottle from JR's Beer Warehouse on 24 Jan 2026 at 19:16

cheap (9692) reviewed

Razzle Dazzle from Paladin Brewing

6 months ago

3.8/10 — Appearance 2 Aroma 6 Flavor 3 Texture 3 Overall 3.5

Cheap 2$ can pours virtually clear pale. No hint of raspberry in the color. However, there is a slight nose of berry hidden in the quite slaggy nose. First taste tells me this is simply a wheat ale. Lurking in the bitter wheat ale taste is some mild tartness and a tad of raspberry flavor. Must mention tho the wheat ale character is certainly forward and the raspberry is very laid back. From the label, I was expecting the opposite. Wheat ale develops more intensity thru the middle with pointed bitter provoking annoying vivaciously vexatious. Near the end its trying my patience, tiring irksome and nearly galling. like a sharped tongue rude ass fairy. Oh well, not nearly as good as I was expecting here Paladin. Decent label on the can tho!

Tried from Can at Paladin Brewing on 23 Jan 2026 at 17:46

cheap updated a beer: Razzle Dazzle brewed by Paladin Brewing
6 months ago

cheap (9692) reviewed

Captain Hazy from Collision Bend Brewing Co.

6 months ago

2.9/10 — Appearance 5 Aroma 6 Flavor 1 Texture 3 Overall 0.5

Hazy pale with a slight orange tint. Nice foaming white head. Nose is green pine cones. Bitter sharp initial flavor, terribly on style IPA. Rude crude and nasty even tho it does have a pretty good co2 level that keeps it from being a mouth coating son bitch. Bitterness builds thru the middle. As a macro pale lager connosour, I find this mess to be an awful, dreadful, lousy, crappy, crummy, abysmal pail of rubbish. An assault on my girlie pale lager loven taste buds. But hey, for 2 greenbacks, its a tick. There, you have it.

Tried from Can from Chalet Premier on 22 Jan 2026 at 18:03

cheap added a new beer Captain Hazy by Collision Bend Brewing Co.
6 months ago

cheap (9692) reviewed

Hazicus Maximus from Lagunitas Brewing Company

6 months ago

0.9/10 — Appearance 3 Aroma 0.5 Flavor 0.5 Texture 1 Overall 0.5

As an IPA detester, I'm a little apprehensive about tasting the brew from this $2 bomb can. For the price, I'll mark it up as a tick, no enjoyment value added. Just remember, I rate for the enjoyment factor, not by style. First pour reveals a viscous dehydrated micturated appearance. This along with the alarming notorious old IPA volatile nose is quite concerning. First taste is, well, mouthcoating near cloying sweet and rotten grapefruit bitter. What a combination. One of the complaints I have about this impy IPA, and any impy IPA, is its pronounced over the top sweet laced excessive bitterness. The extreme hop content characterizes this beer as an emotional bitter bastard terpenes blast profile which I find totally unpalatable. Drain pour? No, I signed up for this savagely viscous session, and I shall endure and plow forward. Its simply a brutal experience akin to forcing a relationship to work that you know is doomed. I suggest this impy barbaric bitterness overshadow any potential enjoyment derived from other flavors present in this beer, such as its grapefruit character. The perception that impy IPAs are somehow superior to other beer styles, simply because they are more complex or challenging, is a notion of palatal machismo, just IMHO, an elitist attitude, a desire to showcase one’s ability to endure unpleasant flavors. There, you have the rant. You like impy IPA, put this on yer bucket list, if you have not tasted it already. I'll give this brew an additional 0.5 points just because I'm catching a little mental vacation as I near the end of the can.

Tried from Can from Chalet Premier on 21 Jan 2026 at 17:48